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"Doing Graphic Design" will be a hands-on workshop in which participants learn basic principles of design & more specific technical tricks...through the making of original works. We will focus on crafting visual identities and graphic design for print and web, touching on simple illustration and typography. Each participant should come prepared with a project they want to do and learn through. Each person will work towards producing one poster or flyer and a digital banner. Participants can choose to undertake a larger series or project collaboratively if this is desired.

Course Size: 8 people maximum. Tools Provided: laptops with software (cc photoshop & illustrator) installed. Participants can bring their own laptop or can borrow one to use in class. We'll contact you after you register to arrange this.

Workshop Details

To bring/prepare: An example of design that you like. Your initial project idea. Icebreaker:

Prompt: What do you think of design?

Discussion: Representations in visual media.Prompt: How design is involved in creating/mediating representation. What do we want to see more of? Less of?

Discussion: Pitfalls of design thinking in the ways it is currently taught.Prompts could include: appropriation, gentrification, vapid trends, no value for self-reflexive & critical thinking, harmful means of production/suppliers and profit.

Discussion: What do we want to prioritize in our design practices? Examples of design manifestos throughout the ages.

Show & Discuss: Examples of design that empowers/design that you like. ------ break -----

Lesson & discussion: Short design history – show slideshow of general trends from 1900 to now. Note: really Eurocentric, please help add material to widen the “canon”.

Exercise: Using the terms we just learned. Describe the visual elements and identities of design examples. (Important to note: knowledge of tone is intuitive, so use your own words as much as those we are sharing with you.)